Marranito Cookies / Gingerbread Cookies

Prep Milk
Warm milk, add brown sugar and Piloncillo…stir to dissolve, allow to cool before using.

1/2 C Half-n-Half milk/cream

2 cup brown sugar
2-Piloncillo chopped or grated

Piloncillo is Raw Mexican brown sugar which will give the cookies their unique taste. [Note: If the Piloncillo is hard and cannot be easily chopped or grated..soften 10-20 seconds in microwave to make it easier to chop or grate.]

Kitchen Aid Whipping Wisk

Cream/whip:

½ C salted butter (room temperature) [Cream first them add dry ingredient]

Add to whipped butter:

1-tsp powdered ginger

1 ½ tsp powdered cinnamon

½ tsp salt

½ tsp ground cloves

¼ tsp white pepper

Cream/whip well to insure ingredients are well whipped.

Add

½ cup Grandma’s molasses (spray measuring cup with pam)

1-1/2 t vanilla

1 egg (room temperature)

Whip well

Add milk/sugar mixture Whip WELL

Change out Whipping Wisk to Kitchen Aid Flat Paddle

Have your flour ready to be added as soon as your add Baking Soda into mixture.

Add

1-T baking soda

5-1/2 C flour (Add one cup at a time to control the dough moisture)

Cover and rest dough overnight in refrigerator, next day bring dough to room temperature and roll out dough and cut into shapes, coat top of cookies with egg wash (1-whisked egg), bake at 350 for 20-minutes, time depends on the thickness you decide to cut your cookies.

I purchased my Piggy Shaped Cookie Cutter on Amazon . com.

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Stuffed Zucchini Flower con Poblano Relleno

 Some of our zucchini plants are not producing zucchinis but are producing male flowers.  Want not...waste not!

I decided to stuff the zucchini flower with cream cheese plus a little Montreal steak seasoning and stuff the flower into a poblano roasted chile.

Stuffed Flor con Poblano Relleno.  Delicious!

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Cantaloupe Seed Juice

Cantaloupe Seed juice or Cantaloupe Milk: Researchers believe milk made from cantaloupe seeds could be a valuable substitute for soy milk or as a source of protein. I never was a big meat eater and my mom was always concern with me getting enough protein in my diet, she was a nurse. Every summer she made sure I had plenty of Cantaloupe Seed juice to drink because I was also not a big milk drinker. It is really easy to make and is absolutely delicious. So stop tossing the seeds in the garbage and blend yourself a treat from heaven!

Blend your seeds with a little water, sieve the blended seeds, pour over ice and enjoy. You could add honey or sweetener if you desire.

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Piñones & Blue Cheese Macaroni Salad

Piñones & Blue Cheese Macaroni Salad. 32-oz small macaroni boil in salted water with a dash of olive oil for 7-mins (place in boiling water and set timer). Slice inter ribs of celery stalk include celery leaves (tender center stalks), 1/2 medium red onion thinly diced, 1-bag toasted pine nuts (piñones), 1-large dill pickle diced, 1/2 can sliced black olives, add 1/3 cup mayo and 1-cup Greek yogurt with 3-cap fulls of rice vinegar and sprinkle some white pepper in the salad and mix. Use about 1/2 of a pie shape or blue cheese wedge. I have updated this recipe with my daughters measurements. She made this for a party and it was a big hit!

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Spiced Apricot Pie Chips

Thinly slice apricots

Place in a bowl with 2-cups of tap water

Add 4-cap fulls of bottle lime juice

2-tablespoons ground cinnamon

1-teaspoon ground ginger

Add sugar if your fruit is not sweet

Taste water correct seasonings to your liking

The lime juice will prevent the apricots from turning browning.

Dehydrate (follow dehydrators instructions)

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Hasselback Organic Baby Vegetables

Hasselback Organic Baby veggies in Marinara Sauce. 

With our gardens ripening up to full production and your local farmers market full of fresh tender baby vegetables, your meals should be filled with beautifully colored organic vegetables. 

If your children are not big vegetable eaters allow them to pick their baby vegetables straight from the plant or from a bin at your local farmers market. 

You can help them Hasselback their veggies so they will steam quickly. Served with their favorite marinara sauce and cheese they might not even notice it is MISSING the pasta!

Your vegetarian eater will also be happy with their meal. Organic Fresh Baby Vegetables are so full of flavor and mild sweet tenderness you will never want to eat a mature vegetable again. Joking aside they are delicious.

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Reuben sandwich ~ Homemade Pastrami

Reuben sandwich! Making your own pastrami is very easy!

Trim the fat from the corned beef briskets. I slow cooked the fat to make a broth in my slow cooker. 






Soak the briskets in cold water to leach away some of the salt replacing the water twice. 

I smoked the corned beef briskets with a combination of cherry, pecan and apple chips until the briskets reached 165 degrees.








 The chip blend was 50% cherry, 25% pecan and 25% apple chips. Set smoker at 225 degrees for 1-hour and smoke briskets when the smoke is the thickest, increase the temperature to 250 degrees for one hour and finished off the smoking at 275 degrees to bring the briskets up to 165 degrees.  

Refrigerate meat for 24-hours, slice the cold meat for Reuben sandwich or chill meat until meat can slice easily in your slicer. 





I did not add the additional pastrami spices of black peppercorns, coriander, paprika, garlic, mustard seed, cloves and allspice because I like the flavor of this pastrami. 

The Rye bread was grilled with butter on both sides to make a crunchy sandwich. Add French mustard, sauerkraut which has been drained, one slice of Swiss cheese and your homemade pastrami.

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